Police know that when a mysterious death of a married woman or man occurs, look at the spouse first. That apparently applies to beekeepers too.  A lot has been made of colony collapse disorder…

Descent with modification means that all life on Earth probably came from one common ancestor – a single-celled organism – We just have to speculate and create models for what it may have looked like…

Installing hand sanitizers in  classrooms has not led to reductions in the rate of school absences in children, according to results of a cluster randomized trial that that randomly assigned 68…

This is something James Lovelock, author of the Gaia Hypothesis, predicted, way back in 1967. He said that Mars is lifeless, based on nothing more elaborate than the simple observation that it's…

Scientists have sequenced the genome of Belgica antarctica, the Antarctic midge – the smallest in insects described to-date –  and believe it can explained by the midge's adaptation to its deep…

Cancer is the blanket term for over a hundred diseases where abnormal cells divide and invade tissues through blood and lymph systems. The extra cells are often detected in the form of a tumor that…

Drier conditions at the edges of forest patches slow down the decay of dead wood and significantly alter the cycling of carbon and nutrients in woodland ecosystems, according to a new study. Forests…

With carbon dioxide from the American energy sector plummeting back to early 1990s levels and coal, the dirtiest energy source, back at early 1980s levels, environmentalists have tried to turn on…

Conservation wants to preserve nature as it is while wildlife management seeks to maintain responsible levels for animal populations. There is a reasonable balance. In Pennsylvania, for example,…

 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is triggered by a terrifying event, either witnessed or experienced, and the symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as…

Whether or not humans are the only empathic beings is a debate for anthropologists, because there is no science answer; the ability to experience others' emotions is hard to quantify in a species so…

Researchers have reported registering three possible occasions of the total destruction of stars by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.  They astrophysicists used data obtained…

Testosterone, a steroid hormone, contributes to aggressive behavior in males, but the neural circuits through which testosterone exerts these effects have not been clear. Prior studies found that the…

Asiaticoside is the main saponin constituent of Centella asiatica, a plant long used in the Ayurvedic system of medicine that has become popular for human collagen synthesis applications, like anti…

Today the Cornell arxiv features a paper by J. Aguilar Saavedra and F. Jouaquim, titled "A closer look at the possible CMS signal of a new gauge boson". As I read the title I initially felt somewhat…

 Chloroquine is a well-known medicine with a good safety profile that has been in use since World War 2 for the treatment of malaria and certain auto-immune diseases, including rheumatoid…

One of the greatest and most dangerous naturalistic fallacies is that if our ancestors used something, it must be as good or even better than modern science. In An Account of the Foxglove and Some of…

We already knew that environmental groups had a wage gap for men and women reminiscent of the 1960s while engineering, which supposedly needs more women, leads all job sectors in equal pay between…

We already knew that environmental groups had a wage gap for men and women reminiscent of the 1960s while engineering, which supposedly needs more women, leads all job sectors in equal pay between…

Weather extremes have been linked to a recently discovered mechanism: the trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere. A new data analysis now shows that such wave-trapping events are indeed on the…